A woman set the Guinness World Record for the largest hula hoop spun by a female. Getti Kehayova is a circus performer, hula hoop instructor and technician at Cirque du Soleil. She comes from a family ...

Lessons she learned from her nearly 25 years in the circus help with her current job as a stage rigger — someone who wears harnesses and handles ropes and cables that performers hang from. She works ...

It’s safe to say this woman jumped through a lot of hoops to get here. A Las Vegas woman twirled her way into the record books after spinning a hoop so huge, she had to wear protective gear, Guinness ...

It has been a circus prop, a toy and a 1950s fad, and now the hula hoop is making a comeback as a workout tool that fitness experts say provides an effective cardio and even meditative workout. A new ...

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THE CREATIVE MINDS behind the Big Apple Circus had another tough challenge this year: how to work the Hula-Hoop a rock-era invention if there ever was one into their “Jazzmatazz” theme. The solution: ...

ON THE FIRST day of hula hooping class at the School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts (SANCA) in Georgetown, you get to pick out your hoop. A big, awesome, heavy hula hoop. Then you put it down and are ...

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Tess Munro Pedreros, an aerialist, showcases her work with several electric Hula Hoops at Massey Memorial in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo: Andrew Gibson/Caters News) Tess Munro Pedreros, an ...

Cirque du Soleil has come a long way since its founding by two French-Canadian street performers in the 1980s. It translates to "Circus of the Sun" and is now dubbed the largest theatrical producer in ...

A family theatre festival is returning to Shepton Mallet for a sixth year - with highlights including circus shows, giant balloons and what organisers promise will be "hula hoop madness". All the ...

A circus hula hooper claims she was boycotted by the industry after describing a claim of sexual harassment in her debut novel. Judith Lanigan has claimed in the Victorian Civil and Administrative ...